I do not deal with the text [of the Bible] scientifically. I read it, I'm interested in its layers of meaning, but my relation to it is much more an emotional one.

If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end?

Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.

There are moments when I think it will never end, that it will last indefinitely. It's like the rain. Here the rain, like everything else, suggests permanence and eternity. I say to myself: it's raining today and it's going to rain tomorrow and the next day, the next week and the next century.

Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.

Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word.

The only place where I felt at home, on familiar ground, was the Jewish cemetery. And yet I had never set foot in it before. Children had been forbidden to enter.